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The world according to Itzik : selected poetry and prose / Itzik Manger ; translated and edited by Leonard Wolf ; with an introduction by David G. Roskies and Leonard Wolf.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manger, Itzik, 1901-1969
- Series:
- New Yiddish library
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. English. 2002
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Manger, Itzik, 1901-1969--Translations into English.
- Manger, Itzik.
- Manger, Itzik, 1901-1969.
- Bible. Old Testament--History of Biblical events--Poetry.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- History of Biblical events.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Freedman, Robert, 1929- (donor)
- Freedman, Molly (donor)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xlvi, 249 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- In the years between 1929 and 1939, when Itzik Manger wrote most of the poetry and fiction that made him famous, his name among Yiddish readers was a household word. Called the Shelley of Yiddish, he was characterized as being "drunk with talent." This book -- the first full-length anthology of Manger's work -- displays the range of his genius in poetry, fiction, and criticism. The book begins with an extensive historical, biographical, and literarycritical introduction to Manger's work. The selections include excerpts from his novel The Book of Paradise, three short stories, autobiographical essays, critical essays, and foremost, Manger's magnificent poetry -- ballads, lyrics, and his bold retellings of the Midrash and Songs of the Megillah. These works, which have the patina of myths acquired ages ago, also offer modern psychological insight and irrepressible humor. With Manger we make the leap into the Jewish twentieth century, as he re-creates the past in all its layered expressiveness and interprets it with modernist sensibilities.
- Contents:
- Let Us Sing Simply x
- Poetry
- Itzik's Midrash
- The Sacrifice of Itzik 4
- I Praise Thee Lord 5
- Eve and the Apple Tree 5
- Eve Brings Adam the Apple 7
- Abraham Scolds Lot 8
- Lot's Daughters 10
- Abraham and Sarah 11
- Hagar's Last Night in Abraham's House 12
- Hagar Leaves Abraham's House 13
- Hagar on Her Journey 15
- Abraham Takes Itzik to the Sacrifice 16
- The Patriarch Abraham Gets a Letter 17
- Rachel Goes to the Well for Water 19
- The Patriarch Jacob Meets Rachel 20
- Leah Brings Mandrakes from the Field 21
- Jacob Teaches the Story of Joseph to His Sons 22
- Bathsheba 24
- King David and Abishag 25
- Abishag Writes a Letter Home 26
- Cain and Abel 27
- King David 29
- Songs of the Megillah
- Invocation 31
- The Song of the Runner 31
- How the Blessed Mordecai Found Favor in the Eyes of the King 32
- Queen Vashti 34
- The King's Banquet 35
- Vashti's Song of Grief 37
- Queen Vashti Being Led to Execution 39
- Esther Getting Ready for the King 40
- Mordecai Leaving Esther's Wedding 41
- Fastrigosso's Elegy 43
- Queen Esther Can't Sleep 44
- Fastrigosso Dreaming 45
- The Blessed Mordecai, the Mediator 47
- The Queen Comes to the King 48
- Fastrigosso Has the Birds Carry a Greeting to Esther 49
- Haman Telephones Vayzosse, the Editor, at His Office 50
- Fonfosso, the Master Tailor, Delivers a Eulogy on Fastrigosso 52
- The King Ahasuerus After the Assassination Attempt 53
- Mordecai Comes to Queen Esther 55
- Wicked Haman Can't Sleep 56
- Wicked Haman in the King's Courtyard 56
- Fonfosso and His Apprentices Sew a Uniform for Haman 59
- Pious Mordecai Waits for Satan 60
- The Master Tailor, Fonfosso, Prepares to Fast 62
- Queen Esther, Fasting 63
- Haman Gets Ready for the Masked Ball 64
- The King Is Angry 66
- Haman Being Taken to the Gallows 67
- The Master Tailor, Fonfosso, Presides over a Banquet 68
- Fastrigosso's Mother Lights a Memorial Candle 70
- Ballads
- The Ballad of the White Glow 72
- The Ballad of the Crucified and the Verminous Man 73
- Old-Fashioned Ballad 74
- Hospital Ballad 76
- The Ballad of the Man Riding to the Fair 78
- Ballad 79
- The Ballad of the Blue Pitchers 81
- The Ballad of the Necklace of Stars 83
- Erotic Ballad 85
- The Ballad of the Man Who Went from Gray to Blue 86
- Occasional Poems
- In the Train 90
- Baal Shem 91
- Satan's Prayer 91
- Evening 93
- Saint Besht 94
- Like a Murderer 96
- With Silent Steps 96
- November 97
- At the Kolomey Station 99
- Twilight 100
- The Words of the Journeyman Tailor Notte Manger to the Poet 101
- There Is a Tree That Stands 102
- Rabenu Tam 104
- Reb Levi Yitskhok 105
- Since Yesterday 105
- For Years I Wallowed 106
- Prose
- Autobiographical Episodes
- Childhood Years in Kolomey 111
- At Grandmother Taube's in Stopchet 117
- A Portrait of a Tailor's Workshop 123
- Fiction
- Excerpts from The Book of Paradise 135
- The Tales of Hershel Summerwind 196
- The Story of the Nobleman's Mustaches 207
- The Rabbi of Chelm: May His Memory Be Blessed 218
- Essays
- First Letter to X. Y. 225
- The Ballad: The Vision of Blood 227
- Sholem Aleichem, the One and Only 229
- Folklore and Literature 236.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0300092482
- OCLC:
- 48494051
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